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In this novel, an old man unwisely reads certain love letters in an inn after the protagonist refuses to give him a job, and the title character's rival later ends up marrying his mistress, Lucetta le Sueur. Richard Newson marries a woman after convincing her to forget about her earlier husband, and the two end up moving to Canada in this novel. The protagonist runs a farming shop at the end of this novel, wherein Susan tells her husband that (*) Elizabeth Jane was actually fathered by a sailor. For 10 points, name this novel in which Henchard drunkenly sells his wife and daughter for five guineas years before assuming the title position, by Thomas Hardy.
In this novel, an old man unwisely reads certain love letters in an inn after the protagonist refuses to give him a job, and the title character's rival later ends up marrying his mistress, Lucetta le Sueur.
The {Mayor} of {Casterbridge}